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Would you like to buy a unicorn?

The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.

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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

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When monarchs healed the sick

Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.

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  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox -- 'Head Enveloping' pox
  • Treatment of acute pathologies, head pain, Chinese lithograph
  • Treatment of acute pathologies, 'putrid wind', lithograph
  • Acute pathologies, infantile diarrhoea, Chinese lithograph
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boil directly opposite the mouth
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
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